Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 12:48:20 -0400 From: Kurt Hackenberg <kh@panix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is the info viewer? Message-ID: <9006d11c-4e93-ee5b-26ef-3c62187b5d84@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <20190910071826.GA28277@mail.bsd4all.net> References: <20190910070033.GA29721@admin.sibptus.ru> <20190910071826.GA28277@mail.bsd4all.net>
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>> >From /usr/src/UPDATING: > > 20150102: >> The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed. >> To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports. > >> Herbert > > Better than the user-unfriendly GNU info is pinfo, in FreeBSD ports category misc. As a workaround, you can also use Emacs. C-h i browses the info tree that comes with Emacs. With a numeric argument (eg C-u C-h i), it asks for the pathname of an info file. Handy if you use Emacs anyway. I agree that if the base system includes info files, it should include a reader. However, /usr/local/share/info is not part of the base system; that's ports/packages. My current system doesn't have /usr/share/info.
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